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Is that logo right for the period? And if it is a fake, isn't the headstock shape trademarked?

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1370341999' post='2099274'] [sup][size=4]Raygun relics are at it again... [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/raygunrelics/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25"]http://www.ebay.co.u...&_from=&_ipg=25[/url] Take your pick![/size][/sup] [/quote] I think an axe would be a better choice than a pick.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1370635910' post='2103902'] I am amazed that Johnny Marr would diss him when his playing was so integral to the sound and feel of that band . [/quote] It was the prize twat and dreadful singer Morrissey who dissed him.

I play standing up as much as possible but have a Kinsman stool on stage when I'm going to be playing for more than about 30 minutes. Had a bad bike crash in 2001 and the soft tissue damage resulting from that causes me significant pain if I stand up for too long.

Like so many other travellers, it's been evicted.

Don't buy painted or lacquered basses, it'll end in tears.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1370024819' post='2095771'] First off, radio pluggers never did much even in the old days, apart from smuggle underage girls into Radio 1. These days, they're practically extinct. [/quote] Nonsense. There are still plenty of underage girls around.

Fish or foul?

I've been back with Mrs Zero for nine years now (our first time round was in 1977-1978) and bass is no problem - she sings with one of the bands and as 50% of a duo with me on guitar. Mrs Zero the first was quite supportive of me, although I bought my first Warwick after we split up so I never learnt how she'd have felt about that, and Mrs Zero the second went from a bit interested to complete disinterest - which actually suited me fine as taking an unpredictable alcoholic along to gigs would have been a serious embarrassment.

What a waste of TIM

Presumably he's got a shopful of the sodding things and he's trying to make it look like a bargain when he puts a $100 price tag on one.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1369423069' post='2089225'] It was a great question Dave, but unfortunately I did not understand the answer provided. I wish I could find somewhere to go for technical lessons. I need someone to teach me right from the absolute rock bottom basics. [/quote] Quick guide - as a general rule, you have a gain conrol on the left, tone controls or graphic EQ or both in the middle, and a master volume control on the right. Start with gain and master turned right down and the tone controls/EQ flat. If there's a light saying "clip" or a meter, turn the gain control up until the clip light comes on briefly when you play at your loudest or the meter needle approaches 0dB or the red zone, then back it off a fraction. Then turn the volume control up until it's as loud as you want it. If there's no visual indication of input level, first turn the volume control up a little and then turn the gain up until it starts getting distorted, then turn the gain down a bit, then adjust volume to suit. Then muck around with the tone controls/EQ.

I can only imagine he's got double bass strings on it. So that would make restringing it an extremely expensive exercise.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1369063116' post='2084418'] I'd have to say the worst Beatles cover I've ever heard is that bloody awful version of "a little help from my friends" by Joe Cocker. Absolutely f***ing atrocious. [/quote] It's brilliant. Beats the sh*t out of the appalling Beatles original.

[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1369149933' post='2085485'] Maybe it's my old eyes but, in photo 1, are the strings and the neck running parrallel? Track the E string along the neck, with reference to the neck edge. [/quote] Going by the third photo, not only does the E string get to the edge of the fretboard but also the G string seems to be closer to the edge than advisable. Could it be a replacement bridge with too-wide string spacing? One BBOT looks much the same as another.

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1369050348' post='2084198'] Well unfortunately I'm getting married in two months [/quote] You could probably have phrased that better...

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1369040890' post='2084081'] Steve is hoping to do another one in a couple of months, so I'll be trying to drum up some support for that. [/quote] I'd be interested in the next one.

Songs used to be pretty easy to learn - to quote Jonathan King, they were verse, chorus, verse, chorus, clever bit, verse, chorus. That's pretty easy to cope with, you just learn the bassline to each bit by repetition, putting in whatever fancy bits seem to work, and then stick them all together, coping with the odd little thing like a double length verse. Nowadays it seems more common for songs to have a constantly-varying structure so you have to learn a more complex structure assembled from smaller building blocks. I find that playing along with something a few times is generally enough but I've got rather slack in knowing what chords I'm playing to so I've got rather too pattern-based for my own liking.

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1368488089' post='2077768'] [size=4]Raygun Relics at it again! [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400485813700&ssPageName=ADME:B:FSEL:GB:1123"]http://cgi.ebay.co.u...:B:FSEL:GB:1123[/url][/size] [/quote] Not sure about the term "refurbished". Wouldn't "defurbished" be more accurate?

You can get long reach hangers. I have one of these [url="http://www.herculesstands.com/guitars/GSP40WB.html"]http://www.herculesstands.com/guitars/GSP40WB.html[/url] holding an Ashbory in between two short-arm hangers holding more conventional basses to save a bit of room. Here we go:

A company that Mrs Zero used to work for pulled the same stunt (some time after making her redundant). However HMRC were waiting for them at the other end of the tunnel and, because the previous company had folded owing £100k or so of VAT, ordered the new company to pre-pay £60k VAT as a surety. The new company didn't and as a result got fined and had to pay £60k compensation. So it's not all bad news. [url="http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/northamptonshire-businessman-forced-to-pay-back-60-000-to-inland-revenue-1-3493985"]http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/northamptonshire-businessman-forced-to-pay-back-60-000-to-inland-revenue-1-3493985[/url]

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1368449641' post='2077142'] You mean that you don't have the power to say whatever you want? I certainly do. [/quote] If that were true then Peter Carter-Ruck would have to make his living in more socially acceptable ways, such as clubbing baby seals or selling crack to schoolchildren.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1368446788' post='2077093']Matter is also a general term for the substance that makes up all observable physical objects. [/quote] Don't forget the 90% of the matter in the universe that is currently unobservable - dark matter. I think it's actually Marmite.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1367937218' post='2071216'] Basswood is a relative of pine? How? [/quote] They both come from trees. He doesn't say it's a close relative.